I must admit that she almost convinced me by saying that, but my love for QPs is too strong. Anyway, read her thread. It's pretty enlightening.
Why must we be forced to choose between living like digital Amish and spoiled teenage girls? Can't we just act as rational adults and not think of stabbing someone when we're handed a knife?
If I can do that, being the piece of shit that I am, then you can, too.
In the end, the oposition to QPs is based on two contradictory ideas: one is that Fediverse users are _not_ like Twitter users. (Remember the famous line, «Twitter without the nazis»?) We are caring and kind, and we wouldn't hurt a fly, while they are “awful, awful people.”
The other is that we have seen QPs on Twitter being used for evil, so we must ban them here too, as we (the best of the breed, free from any imperfection since birth) would use them in the same way because reasons.
@josemanuel i don't like QT's because they don't show up in Tusky. Seems like they did before or something, like "QT: <link-to-thread>", but for your toots, it just looks like you forgot to add a link or something
@2ck T-that's your reasoning? One app doesn't implement something and that's why we shouldn't use it? Wouldn't it be better if you asked Tusky developers for that feature instead? It's not that hard. Pleroma, Misskey and its derivatives have had it for years. Qoto even uses Misskey's implementation internally. It's only Mastodon that falls behind because they're prudes who think everybody is evil but themselves.
Anyway, this is the link to the thread I posted in case you missed it: https://masto.ai/@stavvers/109565784138787138
@josemanuel it's not my "reasoning"--that makes it sound like far more consideration than I bothered to put in--but it's a reason. it's easy enough to post a link to a post and it displays in any client already
@2ck A preview helps you decide whether you're interested in what the link says or not without having to click on it. It also makes sense of the QP right away. Not to mention that, at least in the web UI, the link would open in the quoted post's instance, effectively bypassing any visibility restrictions (i.e., blocks) they might have set up for you. This means that QPs actually increase security.
One of the reasons why I think QPs are useful is that they create a new thread. That means you can take the conversation in a different direction without derailing the original one.
I usually use a QP when I want to point out an idea inspired by the original thread, or that it reminded me of, but not strictly related to it.
Another use case is the one in this thread: recommending that you read the other one and letting you know why I think it's interesting instead of just throwing it onto your TL.
My point is that QPs are not responsible for the use shit people make of them. The problem is shit people, and you deal with them by muting and blocking, not by banning a useful communication tool. (By the way, lately I found blocking to be a better alternative with the ex-Twitter crowd: muting is for people I don't want to read; blocking is for people I don't want to be reading _me_.)